causalities

Noun

causality (countable and uncountable, plural causalities)

1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
2. The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.
   • But how do transformations like the evolution of language take place? A scientist looks for a cause inside time; a mystic knows that causality is essentially a process that is outside time-space.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 94